Baltimore Orioles Baseball
Q&A with Kevin Goldstein, Baseball Prospectus
Kevin Goldstein is an author of Baseball Prospectus, and contributor to ESPN. Since 2006 Goldstein has written multiple-times-per week "Future Shock" columns on high school, college, and minor league player prospects, with an emphasis on scouting rather than...
June Q&A with Dan Szymborski, BBTF & ESPN
On a Monthly basis Orioles Hangout will be checking in with Dan Szymborski, the Editor-in-Chief of Baseball Think Factory (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/) and a contributing writer for ESPN. You can also find Szymborski on Twitter at:...
Thoughts on the Draft Through Round 14
Instantaneous Draft Grades in any sport is a pretty fruitless endeavor, and I think it is especially true in Baseball Drafts where the great majority of those selected will never make it to the Major Leagues. I’m not going to try an discuss the merits of the first 14...
O’s select Dylan Bundy with the 4th Overall Pick
With the 4th overall pick in the 2011 MLB Draft, the O’s have selected HS P Dylan Bundy. I personally would have preferred Anthony Rendon, but Bundy is extremely highly regarded in his own right. Obviously the O's were scared off by the received medical reports on...
Q&A with Danny Knobler, CBS Sports
Danny Knobler is a Senior National Baseball Writer for CBSSports.com. Prior to joining CBS, Knobler was a Beat Writer for the Detroit Tigers for 18 years, and also spent 5 and a half years with Baseball America. You can find Knobler’s work with CBS at:...
Palmer still pushing Johnson as a Starter
Saturday Night in Oakland, Jim Palmer again stated on the MASN telecast that Jim Johnson has the stuff to be an excellent starter. Last September when Palmer stated similar thoughts, I wrote the following: "There is nobody associated with the Orioles organization that...
Q&A with Joe Jordan, O’s Director of Amateur Scouting
With the June Amateur Draft quickly approaching (June 6th - 8th), Orioles Hangout has reached out to Mr. Joe Jordan – the Director of Amateur Scouting for The Baltimore Orioles for some of his pre-draft thoughts. Orioles Hangout: “Gerrit Cole and Anthony Rendon are...
Q&A with Jonathan Mayo, MLB.com
Jonathan Mayo is a Senior Writer for MLB.com. For several years, he hosted a variety of shows on MLB Radio, MLB.com’s internet radio network, including Around the Minors, a daily show devoted to baseball prospects. Mayo has also done extensive video work ranging from...